Semipalmated sandpiper

Semipalmated sandpiper
Individual on a mudflat in Heislerville, Cumberland County, NJ, May 2022.
Semipalmated sandpiper call
Long Island, NY, April 2004. By Tony Phillip.
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Calidris
Species:
C. pusilla
Binomial name
Calidris pusilla
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms
  • Tringa pusilla Linnaeus, 1766
  • Ereunetes pusillus (Linnaeus, 1766) (but see text)
  • Erolia pusilla (Linnaeus, 1766)

The semipalmated sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) is a very small shorebird. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific pusilla is Latin for "very small".[2]

It is sometimes separated with other "stints" in Erolia, but, although these apparently form a monophyletic group, the present species' old genus Ereunetes had been proposed before Erolia.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Calidris pusilla". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22693373A93400702. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22693373A93400702.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 84, 325. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.